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Sicknesses have been invented and family emergencies concocted out of thin air by desperate men anxious to avoid going to work on a Monday morning, but few have pursued their designs with the conviction of Dwayne Yeager, a man in his early thirties from central Florida.

According to the sheriff’s department in Hillsborough County, Mr Yeager rose early on Monday morning, ransacked his own house and then called the police to report a burglary.

Deputies from the sheriff’s office duly arrived at 7.25am to investigate.

Mr Yeager, 31, told them that he had returned home to discover that he had